Most of us played with building blocks to create our own
make believe buildings and cities. Fortunately, not all of us outgrew
this habit. Here are some cityscape artworks made from unusual objects
like egg, cookware, and Jell-O. Yes. Jell-O.

(Yes, we've featured many of these artists before on Neatorama, but it's
kind of neat to see them all in one place.)

Unreal Scene (2008) by Liu Jianhua

Chinese artist Liu Jianhua created this cityscape of Shanghai out of
poker chips and dice. You can fill in the part about the metaphor of a
city's growth and economic development to risk taking, gambling, and chance
all by yourself. Part of a solo exhibition at Galleria Continua in San
Gimignano, Italy.

Biscuit City by Sang Dong

When his assistant remarked that she wanted to have a biscuit or two
after the exhibition was completed but worried whether the biscuits would
be stale, Dong had a sage advice: "Go for the ones at the bottom."

Atlantis Cityscape

Artist Gayle Chong Kwan used hundreds of old plastic bottles and food
packagings to create a cityscape of the lost city of Atlantis: Link

Colour Reading and Contexture by Jacob Dahlgren

At first I thought Jacob Dahlgren used books to create this virtual cityscape
installation called "Colour Reading and Contexture," but those
are actually colored tiles and wooden blocks. Still it's pretty cool!
Link

Urville by Gilles Tréhin

Urville is an island off Côte d'Azur, between Cannes and St. Tropez.
If you've never heard of it, that's because it exists only in the mind
of a savant named Gilles Tréhin.

Gilles started building Urville, named after Durmont d'Urville, a French
scientific base in the Antarctic, when he was 12. Now, he has hundreds
of detailed drawings, as well as a "historical" narrative on
the founding of the city. Link

Cityscape II by Grace Grothaus

For her exhibition titled "Uncharted Terrain," Grace
Grothous made an imaginary topographic landscale out of discarded
circuit boards. The little buildings are the circuitries that are part
of the boards! Link

Jerusalem Sphere by Frank Meisler

Inspired by ancient maps showing Jerusalem as a circular city, Frank
Meisler created this sculpture of the city in the form of a sphere. It
is a replica of the Jerusalem Fountain, commissioned by the King Solomon
Hotel. Link

RPM-1200 "Junk City" by Enoki Chu

Photo: Keizo Kioku

Photo: Yuto Kirakakiuchi

Japanese artist Enoki Chu created his futuristic cityscape out of polished
old drill bits and machine parts: Link

Bonus: CityScape Coat Hanger

If you love cityscape art, then you'll dig these CityScape Coat Hangers
by sixxis. These laser-cut coat hangers are illustrated with the skylines
of five cities: Link

If you have anything to add, I'd love to hear about it in the comment
section!

Thank you for these - very inspiring. I have a cookbook that says "the urge to build is always with us, no matter how unsuitable the materials..." in a section about making houses out of cake. Well, who hasn't done that? They're missing out on a lot of fun!